Originally Posted by
robbo176
went to Rice Lane farm today...sad to see the cows grazing amongst the war graves ...
Great pics Mandy....
The graves go back well before the 1st world war Mand...they go back to when Walton hospital was a workhouse..
Them fields are filled with hundreds of thousands of burials.. some 10 to a grave..
tens of thousands of Irish people are buried in them paupers graves..
they fled Ireland from the potato famine and lived in the workhouse..
the dead would be piled on top of each other on hand carts and wheeled up that avenue area full of old graves..
they would be tipped from the hand carts and left there.. piled on top of each other until they were buried.
Several well known people are buried in that cemetary.. Robert Philip Tressell (Noonan) being one of them..
He is in a paupers grave.. his grave now has a marked headstone..
it is right over the far side of the cemetary by the exit to where Walton gaol is...
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My grandad is buried there on that avenue.. his headstone still intact and visible
that area where the graves are on the long avenue is seperate from the paupers area..
By all accounts you had to have a few bob to be buried there..
My Grandads mothers side apparently had a few bob.. my mams family could not afford to have him buried there.
Edited..
My Grandad is buried in the same grave as his mother and her family..
the grave is very old from the turn of the century...even earlier I think.. from what I remember.
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